Tim Dowling

Timothée Chalamet, Pharrell Williams and Jacob Elordi have no qualms about using one. But can our writer carry it off?

Is it better to fail half the time than do nothing at all? Of course! Author and poet Leena Norms explains the fine art of being slapdash and happy

My wife asked me to do the afternoon dog walk. I begrudgingly acquiesced, with no idea of the drama that lay ahead

My conversations with our window cleaner usually expose how little I know about the team I apparently support. But this time I’m prepped …

He certainly knows his suits … In fact he appears to have worked in men’s clothing since the early sixties

The only way our dog still resembles the puppy we bought is her insistence on annexing my side of the bed

We’re recording a charity Christmas song and I’m drowning in a sea of wrong notes. Luckily, a lifeboat is at hand

The behaviour of the two dogs, the cat and the tortoise isn’t making a particularly good impression on our visitors

Sitting at my kitchen table, waiting to be fed and watered, enjoying the pets, no housework. I wouldn’t mind being ill myself

The car park is full of ostentatious backer-inners making everyone else wait. What is wrong with these people?